The use of all sanitary sewers of the Borough
shall be in compliance with the rules and regulations enacted by the
Bergen County Utilities Authority.
Not fewer than three copies of the rules and
regulations of the Bergen County Utilities Authority have been and
are filed in the office of the Borough Clerk and are available for
public inspection during normal business hours.
Copies of the rules and regulations of the Bergen
County Utilities Authority can be obtained from the Bergen County
Utilities Authority for the cost of publication.
The annual user charge shall be computed on
the previous calendar year's amount of water used and the current
calendar year's charges imposed by the Bergen County Utilities Authority
upon the Borough of Paramus, together with all appropriate administrative
costs for the operation and maintenance of the Paramus sewer system.
There shall be allowed an exemption from the
annual user charge for all residential usage less than 300,000 gallons
of water used, with the exception of hotels, motels and apartments
for which provision is made hereinafter. With respect to hotels and
motels, the exemption shall apply if water usage is less than 300,000
gallons of water used with respect to every eight rooms used for residential
occupancy. With respect to apartments, the exemption shall apply to
usage less than 300,000 gallons of water used with respect to each
separate and individual living unit within the apartment complex.
All privately owned water wells which are connected
to water systems eventually discharging into the sanitary sewers of
the Borough of Paramus shall be subject to the following provision:
A. The owners of wells existing at the date of adoption
of this article shall notify the Borough Clerk of Paramus, in writing,
of the existence and location of such wells within 30 days after the
date of passage of this article.
B. The owners of wells constructed or completed after
the adoption of this article shall notify the Borough Clerk of Paramus,
in writing, of the existence and location of such wells within 30
days of the first usage of such well.
C. The Borough Engineer of Paramus may inspect such wells
to determine the usage thereof if, in the opinion of the Borough Engineer,
such well's actual water production, together with the other water
usage of the owner thereof, exceeds 400,000 gallons of water per year.
The Borough Engineer shall transmit his opinion, in writing, to the
Borough Council of Paramus. After receiving such opinion, the Borough
Council may require the owner of such well to install and maintain
a water meter thereon, at the owner's expense, by adoption of a resolution.
D. If a water meter is required by resolution as provided in Subsection
C hereof; the owner must install such meter within 60 days of adoption thereof. If the owner shall fail to do so, the Borough Council of Paramus may, by resolution, provide for the installation of such meter and add the cost thereof to the user charge levied under this article.
The following billing procedures shall apply
to user charges for the full calendar year 2001:
A. As soon as practical after the passage of this article,
the Chief Financial Officer and the Tax Collector shall attend to
the preparation of bills for the period beginning the first day of
the month following final passage and publication of this article
and ending December 31, 2001, such period being hereinafter referred
to as the "billing year 2001."
B. User charges for the billing year 2001 shall be equal
to the pro rata amount of the user charges which would have been imposed
upon each user for the calendar year 2001 under the terms of this
article.
C. Bills for the billing year 2001 shall be mailed by
the Tax Collector of the Borough of Paramus to the owners of all properties
incurring such charges not later than July 1, 2001.
D. Bills for the billing year 2001 are due and payable
to the Tax Collector on October 1, 2001. If such charges are not paid
in full as of that date, the unpaid charges shall be deemed delinquent
as of that date, and such unpaid charges shall become a lien upon
the properties incurring them as of that date.
E. Except as modified by §
363-30, user charges for the billing year 2001 shall be subject to all of the provisions of this article.